Notes

Ann Hell - The Mask (2000)
Voice, keyboards, guitars and programming by Angel Ortega
All tracks composed and arranged by Angel Ortega except Dies Irae composed by Hector Berlioz, arranged by Angel Ortega

Ann Hell Home Page: http://www.triptico.com/annhell/
Author's Email: angel@triptico.com

Song List
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1. Prince Prospero Meets the Red Death
2. I Am Earth
3. The Abyss Attraction
4. Bag of Heads
5. Ghouls Like Us
6. Crime (Reprise)
7. Don't Look Back (Never Look Back)
8. Dies Irae
9. Land Without God
10. The Fire Within (Jump into Oblivion)
11. Epilogue (Death of the Ebony Clock)

Lyrics
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Prince Prospero Meets the Red Death
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Instrumental

I Am Earth
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I am earth
I am part of the ground
Life spawns over me
The earth resurrects
because I'm dead
Who can ever imagine
being dead is like this
Back to earth
But I'm not alone

The Abyss Attraction
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How can you explain this anxiety inside your veins
and warm this unbearable snatch of fury
a life is betrayed between your hands
dripping and tearing

you feel the abyss attraction
you feel the abyss attraction

how can you get better when you feel pleasure inflicting pain
and no one is there to make you see you are wrong
loose your body in rooms of misery
all your senses are useless

you feel the abyss attraction
you feel the abyss attraction

Bag of Heads
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Hounds breathing near your tracks
Your heart pumping in your chest
Crossing the fields like a raging bull
As the night falls across the land
He was the hunter now is the prey
Carrying a gun, and a bag of heads

Ghouls like us
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Instrumental

Crime (Reprise)
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Inner sea under the burning sun
calling me the guilty of a crime
a million miles so long lost in the desert sand
undercover of this sinner light
my hidden name is more than you will never know of me
- that's the crime

Don't Look Back (Never Look Back)
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your ghost is back at home
he's behind you
hear his little footsteps

don't look back never look back

it was so many years ago
you driving drunk over the child

it's hard to be a normal man
when someone whispers in the dark
little boy with bloody face
trapped inside the car engine

don't look back never look back

motor

Dies Irae
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Instrumental

Land Without God
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Instrumental

The Fire Within (Jump into Oblivion)
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how many times I felt like this
how many times wasting the fire within

i watch you from the distance
remembering i had you,
here between my arms

you leaved me when you knew
i wasn't what you hoped
it's not nice to realize
of being socially challenged

i know I'm not funny
not like the men you go out with

but remember I was there
when you had nothing
nothing but a cold empty heart

and how we spent so many nights
dancing never let me down again and
a lover spurned
you little stupid bitch

i hear you laughing
and it's like laughing about me again
but you can feel lucky
if i just obey the voices i hear
telling me to kill you

i'm here feeling the fire within again

by the river we shared
everything remains the same
your stupid smile of bitch
echoes forever

but now it's only the bridge,
the river and me
i'll jump into oblivion
good night

Epilogue (Death of the Ebony Clock)
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Instrumental